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So for your working purposes, the best equipment may already be sitting in your house (if not cheap alternatives to them). Let me explain…

A) The best, cheapest hard drive you could have with ample size?

____a. If you have a 256GB or 512GB SSD sitting in one of your unused computer (I don’t think everyone has access to this, as not everyone works in an IT-based industry), then a simple USB 3.0 -> SATA converter cable, priced at a mere… $10.99 might save you a few extra dollars. This is IF you decided to go this route. Traditional external SSDs, nominally 2.5-inch or smaller, are very fast, with speeds of 6Gb/s or faster, so this could be an option. (This also has yet to be outlawed by the Wii modding community [or as far as I know--they're just as reliable, if not moreso than traditional SSD portables.])

____b. Otherwise, a simple $59.99 SSD – 250GB Portable may be sufficient and cost efficient for ya!

B) The emulators the Wii can handle are as follows:

____a. Nintendo systems leading up to Nintendo 64: Wii64

____b. Nintendo portable systems leading up to Nintendo DS: DeSmuMe Wii

____c. Sega systems up to Sega Saturn: Yabause Wii

____d. Sony systems—Sony PS1: WiiSX

____e. Atari Systems leading up to the Atari 7800: Wii7800

____f. …and a variously-mixed set of arcade/personal retro-gaming computers from the 70s – late 80s. Check the list here.

C) As for Nintendo Gamecube cards, there is this one, which is 512MB! And it only costs $13.99!

D) Personally, seeing that read-write speeds degrade over time, I would recommend (if you’re not using your external drive, partitioned like I mentioned in THIS post, like mine), then getting a decently fast SDHC card, may help: See this 128GB cheaper-end SanDisk, that is MORE than capable of holding plenty of games/apps for your Wii.

E) Also, if you have any troubles, I wouldn’t mind helping you out while getting any/all of this setup! You can just message me if you have any snags or anything, and I’d be more than glad to help!

…and trust me, I know the feeling. I don’t really mod my Wii much, except for when my USB Loader GX tends to act funny, and then I’m scrambling the internet looking for an update to inject into my FAT32 partition! Bahahah! #AncientWiiProblems

I bought a used wii at a pawnshop for ~$60 (make sure to buy one that has the ports to attach GC memory card and controllers), a refurbished 1tb hd for ~$80, a 2gb SD card (it specifically cannot be sdhc, so thats why its small) for ~$6 and softmodded the wii to play gamecube and wii games that are loaded onto the hard drive. The process is simple, but there are a lot of steps, so it will take some time to read through the directions and get everything done. Here is a link to the guide that I followed:

http://www.wiihacks.com/recommended-faqs-guides-tutorials-only/96886-guide-softmod-any-wii.html

I then added dios mios using this guide (allows you to play GC backups, you need an actual memory card to save games for a lot of titles):

http://www.wiihacks.com/other-faq-guides-tutorials/103429-guide-dios-mios-v2-10-play-gamecube-backups-your-usb-hdd.html


You don't need to physically alter the wii using this method and I have never modded a wii or any other game console before this one, so anyone can do it. Just make sure to follow the steps carefully and read it thoroughly before you start.

Monoprice.com is an excellent source for cables and other peripherals if your used wii doesn't come with them, I suggest getting the component cable for best picture quality.

You don't have to use the exact things I used, I just included the links so you had a reference and somewhere to start. I like the portable hd I got because it is powered by the usb port on the wii, so I didn't have to find a place to plug it in. Be careful which hd you get, some usb 3.0 harddrives can have compatibility issues with a softmodded wii, the forum in the links above have a topic that includes a list of compatible harddrives.

I'd recommend US versions of GC games anyway because of better progressive support.

This may not help with the current issue, but I'd recommend using this folder structure for your GC games: games\The Legend of Zelda - The Wind Waker [GZLE01]\game.iso

You can look up all the game IDs on this site.

This may be a silly question given that it shouldn't be a problem these days, but are you sure your TV supports 60hz? What video cables and settings are you using on your Wii; composite or component? If your TV supports it I'd highly recommend getting a cheap component cable.

It could just be that GX and/or Nintendont doesn't like your USB stick. If you can afford it, I can recommend this drive. I've bought two, formatted them both to FAT32 32-bit clusters and they've worked fine on mine and a friend's Wii I setup up for them.

For a dance pad you have this. It should work on the Wii DDR games and also the GameCube ones. Those are:

• Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (GameCube)
  
  
• Dance Dance Revoltuion Hottest Party (Wii)
  
  
• Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 2 (Wii)
  
  
• Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3 (Wii)
  
  There's also one called DanceDanceRevolution but IIRC it uses motion controls, not the dance pad.
  
  Although to be honest, they're not the best in the series and the songs are kinda meh. If you want to get the best out of that dance pad you're better off getting Step Mania on a PC and plugging the dance pad to that.

Sure! I have 6 of these, work 100% perfect, hooked to Wii's 24/7 (quite a few posts around here asking if this one works, others have confirmed as well)

I also have quite a few of these around the house, these are the ones I put on gifted wii's, and they also work perfect! (few posts around here about this one too lol)

Both are sold at walmart and best buy as well, if you don't wanna wait for shipping.

Yes, and you can also get emulators for almost every system that came before it.
Atari , NES , SNES , Sega , Gameboys , Turbografx16 , Neo-Geo, you name it.

Its relatively easy.

I recommend this Hard Drive for your Wii and GC games.

Everything else put on a SD card.

It also helps if you find someone that can just basically copy their SD card setup to yours. ;)

Check out the sidebar in this sub for the softmod guide.

Stick to this guide and you will do fine, follow some youtube videos and you will be in here asking for help. Most youtube videos have you install the wrong custom IOS and it causes problems with USB Loaders. Theres a sticky in this sub about it.

Good Luck!!

This is definitely the best. It has great speed, great compatibility, and doesn't overheat like that SanDisk drive.

If I were you, I would look into using the fight pad. It reports itself to the Wii as a classic controller pro and so should be compatible with all games that work with the classic controller pro, but it is shaped like a GameCube controller.

I've never used one because I have a white Wii that accepts actual GameCube controllers. However, this is what I would look into if I were in your situation. It is an officially licensed product, so it should be of pretty good quality I would think.

The shielding of analog cables REALLY does matter. With any third party Wii component cable, you will be getting a noisy, sub-par picture. If you can snag the official OEM component cables, go with that option. If not, go HD Retrovision:

https://www.amazon.com/Retrovision-Premium-YPbPr-Component-Video-nintendo/dp/B07TL6L7MY/ref=sr_1_3?crid=2G9ZAU50F4RGJ&keywords=hd+retrovision&qid=1566801035&s=gateway&sprefix=hd+retro%2Caps%2C208&sr=8-3

HD Retrovision is very close to OEM cables in quality. They are a little bit better than Nintendo's official cables.

Also, if you want to go the HDMI route, wait a couple of months. Trust me.

Some Flash Drives just don't work with USB Loaders on the Wii I can Confirm This Samsung Flash Drive has no issues Because I used it with USB Loader GX on my Wii Without Gamecube Ports it also has worked with Nintendont and Doesn't Get Hot at All and is Very Very Very Small and Has Fast Loading Times :) Also if it Ever Breaks it has a 5year Warranty thru Samsung Hopefully it Wont Explode Like the Note 7 XD

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-128GB-Flash-MUF-128BB-AM/dp/B017DH3O5A

Yeah that's what I originally wanted to use. I tried using this https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Controller-Classic-nintendo_super_NES-super-nintendo/dp/B074HBNNH6/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_img_5?_encoding=UTF8&refRID=9XCGA71EP6MEC7M609JG&th=1

and if L/R worked I would be completely in love with it.

Gamecube is easy to load from SD with USB Loader GX.


I think you can check into WiiFlow about loading wii games from SD. I am pretty sure USB Loader GX can't load WII from sd cards. It doesnt work for me anyways.


I am loading my wii games from USB stick. Even an 8gb usb will work but you have to load 1 game at a time.


https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Flash-Cruzer-Glide-SDCZ60-016G-B35/dp/B007YX9O9O/ref=sr_1_6?gclid=CjwKCAjwgqbpBRAREiwAF046JTMu0RQ-cklxIRpBJRGE66WHiXwTJ4wOSp_6EvnLq3t7vZcx0MVM2BoCbskQAvD_BwE&hvadid=177230838685&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9012821&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t2&hvqmt=e&hvrand=2746695891726033771&hvtargid=aud-646118600766%3Akwd-6340039001&hydadcr=18003_9842024&keywords=8gb+usb+stick&qid=1563039907&s=gateway&sr=8-6


You could probably load 2 regular size wii games on that stick its 4$ skip lunch or a couple energy drinks. or 1 coffee or something.

There are pretty much no wrong SD cards as long as they are normal sized. So people say they run into issues with SDHC cards but I have a 32GB card and it works perfectly. Here is just an example but any SD card with 1GB+ size should work: https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-microSDHC-Class-Memory-SDC4/dp/B00200K1TS/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1537464388&sr=1-2&keywords=sd+card&refinements=p_89%3AKingston

I'm using a 32GB micro SD in adapter and it works perfectly! It's only 5 bucks on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-32GB-microSDHC-microSD-SDCS/dp/B079GTYCW4/ref=sr_1_3?crid=12Q5N3IB4OVWA&keywords=kingston+32gb+micro+sd+card&qid=1572628605&s=electronics&sprefix=kingston%2Caps%2C182&sr=1-3

The flash drive looks like a good choice personally I used this mini Samsung drive cause it copies cooler, but it's more money in Canada so I'd stick with what you have. As for the card, I would use a more basic one with a lower write speed and maybe only 8 gigs. I say this cause I had an 8 gig card that worked great, but when I tried to use a 64gb card with the same setup, I couldn't get Project M to load anymore. I don't what you'll try, but newer, bigger cards might cause issues

Update: I've installed/updated all custom cIOS I need through using ModMii.

My External HDD is this guy.

For some reason, HBC will not recognize apps off the root of my external HDD. I thought maybe it was because I didn't install something correctly, or maybe the external HDD wasn't compatible... but if I run something like Nintendont off the SD and then load a game through the USB/HDD it will read and play the game fine.

Should I just use the SD + External HDD in tandem or am I missing something?

I don't see the reason why HBC won't load everything off the external.

It's formatted in FAT32 (32k cluster)

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haven't used that specific model before but it should be fine
i always recommend this one
https://www.amazon.ca/Western-Digital-Passport-Portable-External/dp/B079V4L9BD/ref=asc_df_B079V4L9BD/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=292936769917&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14359210073383755495&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001203&hvtargid=pla-441896883498&psc=1

Also, [Wii to HDMI converter] (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015H7PICK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

Its not perfect, but its better than messing around with component cables. I have had mine for 3 years and it was worth every penny.

Best Controller Small Price

https://www.amazon.es/Nintendo-2110266-Wii-MANDO-CLASICO/dp/B000IN0BSU/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=wii+classic+controller&qid=1562411303&s=gateway&sr=8-8

> You'll need a Y cable since it's beefier. They go for 7 bucks on average

https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Cable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B003HHK58U?th=1

Will this do? Also, I don't have to shuck the External, right? Just plug n' play?

Do you know if I can play gamecube game with this controller and nintendont ?

https://www.amazon.com/PDP-Wired-Fight-Pad-nintendo-u/dp/B00LSBNSJA

Like u/GriffBallChamp said this one should work.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/B01LQQHI8I/ref=mw_dp_olp?ie=UTF8&condition=all

If you're in the US ignore me and use u/GriffBallChamp's

I use this one:

https://www.amazon.ca/Western-Digital-Passport-Drive-USB-3-0-WDBYNN0010BBK-WESN/dp/B01LQQHI8I/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=external+hdd&qid=1568586034&s=gateway&sr=8-3

It's this SanDisk USB Drive.

Here.

I have a drive similar to (if not the same as) this.

Edit: I can't find the more extensive list for HDD compatibility right now. I'll search later tonight.

Western Digital 1TB Black My Passport Portable External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBYNN0010BBK-WESN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHI8I/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_1muxDbJ6EKCZR